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Transnationalism is about the fluidity of borders and the way people

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, but for the Malay world, the cracks run deeper than a nursery rhyme

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The year 1916 is a unique combination of two numbers 19 & 16 –i.e. both are with the digit 1 followed by the numerals 9 & 6 –which appears as if they (9&6) were rotated mirror images of each other. Now the year 1916 was also during the midst of the First World War and was probably the year in which the Modern Middle East as we know it today began to take shape.